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It looks like Santa will be taking a different route this year. The Santa Hustle race series, known for dressing its participants in Santa hats and fluffy white beards, has developed a new course for its Galveston race, scheduled for Dec. 18.

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The Landmark Commission vote Monday to strip Chris Smith of his chairmanship was probably, at least in part, a pre-emptive move meant to head off Galveston City Council’s approval of an ordinance stripping the commission of its judicial power.

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Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote that “The world will be saved by beauty,” which leads us to ask two rhetorical questions: first, does this mean that the world is lost and, second, is ugliness to blame for its condition? Rhetorical questions require no answer, but what we can see for ourselves is that in their multiple forms — artistic, personal and moral — beauty and ugliness contend for cultural supremacy. Today the general consensus among humanistic thinkers is that a “cult of ugliness” prevails.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Marc Gasol scored 36 points and Toney Douglas made two free throws with less than a second left to give the Memphis Grizzlies an 88-86 comeback victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Thursday night.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued some guidelines about teenage driving. Teen drivers have a higher rate of crashes than drivers of any other age group as teen drivers lack the experience and ability to perform many of the complex tasks associated with driving. Teens, particularly males, are more likely to succumb to peer pressure, overestimate their abilities and have emotional mood swings, leading to crashes.

The chance of a teen driver being involved in a car crash is directly proportional to the number of teenage passengers being transported. Alcohol and drug use increases the risks. Teenage drivers drive after using drug and alcohol less often than older drivers, but experience twice as many alcohol and drug related crashes.